Note 553 — Chapter XII · OBLIGATORY CIVIL MARRIAGE IN THE NEW ENGLAND COLONIES
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Shirley, loc. cit., 308. This is true of Connecticut for the entire provincial period: Acts and Laws (New Haven, 1769), 7, but apparently not of Massachusetts under the second charter. In New Hampshire under the Canfield Code, 1682, the betrothed woman is still treated as married, but whipping is dispensed with: New Hamp. Prov. Papers, I, 444, 445. But by the act of 1701 she is punished for fornication as a single woman: ibid., III, 224.